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159 Stanton Street

Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002

159 Stanton Street is a 20-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1900, managed by Centennial Properties NY. The City has 28 open housing-code violations on file for it, 11 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.4 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 33 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 6 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Centennial Properties NY

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Units
20
Year built
1900
Neighborhood
Lower East Side
Borough
Manhattan

This building’s record with the City

Complaints tenants filed with 311, and repairs a City inspector has asked for. Most repairs are routine maintenance. Both describe the building rather than the people in it, and often predate the current management.

1.6/5Among the worst on record nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

33tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 20 the year before

Typically closed in 6 days · neighborhood median is 4

28open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.4 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
11
Hazardous
12
Non-hazardous
5

What the open repairs are about

  • Pests7
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Smoke and CO alarms3
  • Electrical2
  • Other repairs2
  • Leaks, damp or mould2

Housing Court

The City took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023.

A case is a filing, not a finding. Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Centennial Properties NY manages 71 other buildings we cover, holding 1,210 apartments.

open violations
806open violations
immediately hazardous
277immediately hazardous
311 complaints
769311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.7per apartment

The company’s record across its other buildings, not this building’s. A company can run one well and another badly, and these figures often predate the current management. (HPD and 311, as of 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 159 Stanton Street yet.

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